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Pinto bean
Pinto bean, a mottled-seeded market class of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), leading US dry bean class; prone to postharvest seed coat darkening controlled by the P gene; grown mainly in North Dakota.
Pinto Colvig
Pinto Colvig, also known as Vance DeBar Colvig, was an American voice actor and animator. He provided the original voice of Goofy from 1932 until his death in 1967.
Pinto horse
Pinto horse: a coat pattern of large irregular white patches over any base color, not a breed; tobiano and overo patterns; registered by color by the Pinto Horse Association of America (PtHA, 1956), distinct from the Paint breed.
Pintso Namgyal Lepcha
Pintso Namgyal Lepcha is an Indian politician from Sikkim and a Sikkim Krantikari Morcha minister holding the Forest & Environment, Mines and Geology, and Science & Technology portfolios.
Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self
Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self is a 1986 ethnography by the American anthropologist Fred R. Myers of the Pintupi, an Aboriginal people of Australia's Western Desert.
Pintura Roja
Pintura Roja is a Peruvian chicha and cumbia group founded in Lima in the early 1980s by guitarist and composer Alejandro Zárate, known for "El teléfono".
Pinturicchio
Pinturicchio (Pintoricchio), born Bernardino di Betto (Perugia 1454, Siena 1513), Umbrian Renaissance painter who worked with Perugino in the Sistine Chapel, frescoed the Vatican Borgia Apartment for Alexander VI, and painted the Piccolomini Library in Siena.
Pinuccia Valagussa
Pinuccia Valagussa (died 2024) was an Italian oncology researcher and statistician at the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan who co-designed the landmark CMF breast cancer trials.
Pinus
Pinus (pines) is the largest genus of Pinaceae, about 128 Northern Hemisphere conifer species with needle fascicles, split into hard-pine subgenus Pinus and soft-pine subgenus Strobus, origin ~128-150 Ma.
Pinus × sondereggeri
Pinus × sondereggeri, known as Sonderegger pine, is the naturally occurring hybrid of longleaf pine and loblolly pine, occurring where their ranges overlap in Louisiana and Texas.
Pinus albicaulis
Pinus albicaulis, whitebark pine, is a five-needled stone pine of high-elevation western North America, dependent on Clark's Nutcracker for seed dispersal, threatened by blister rust, mountain pine beetle, fire exclusion, and climate change, and listed as threatened (US ESA) and Endangered (Canada SARA).
Pinus aristata
Pinus aristata, Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Colorado bristlecone pine), a five-needled pine of Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico high elevations, distinguished by white needle resin flecks, living over 2,500 years, with climate space projected to shrink 74% by 2090.
Pinus banksiana
Pinus banksiana, the jack pine (French: Pin gris), is a small to medium pine of Canada and the northern United States, growing farther north than any other American pine.
Pinus brutia
Pinus brutia (Turkish, Calabrian, or Brutia pine), eastern Mediterranean conifer from the Balkans to Iran; 3.8 million ha in Türkiye; sessile cones, serotinous fire adaptation, timber, resin, and pine honey uses.
Pinus cembra
Pinus cembra (Swiss stone pine, arolla pine, Arve, Zirbelkiefer) is an alpine Pinaceae tree of the Alps and Carpathians at 1,500–2,400 m, often forming the tree line, whose wingless seeds are dispersed almost solely by the spotted nutcracker.
Pinus contorta
Pinus contorta, commonly known as lodgepole pine, is a pine tree native to western North America, with one of the region's broadest ranges, from Alaska to northern Baja California and east to South Dakota.
Pinus densiflora
Pinus densiflora, Japanese red pine (aka-matsu) or Korean red pine (sonamu), is a two-needled East Asian pine, pioneer species, 26% of Korean forests, succeeding to Quercus oak forests.
Pinus echinata
Pinus echinata, shortleaf pine, also called southern yellow or old field pine, is a native southeastern US conifer with the widest range of any pine there, valued for timber and adapted to fire by basal sprouting, declining under fire exclusion.
Pinus edulis
Pinus edulis, the twoneedle or Colorado pinyon, is a small drought-hardy pine of the southwestern United States, two needles per fascicle, wingless edible seeds, dominant in pinyon-juniper woodland.
Pinus elliottii
Pinus elliottii, slash pine (also swamp pine, yellow slash pine), is a fast-growing hard yellow pine of the southeastern US Coastal Plain with varieties elliottii and densa, widely planted worldwide for timber, pulp, and naval stores.
Pinus gerardiana
Pinus gerardiana (chilgoza pine, Jalghoza) is a Near Threatened Himalayan pine of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Tibet, grown for large edible wingless seeds selling at USD 20–100/kg, with natural regeneration in only ~5% of its range.
Pinus glabra
Pinus glabra (spruce pine, cedar pine, Walter pine) is a shade-tolerant medium pine of the southeastern US Coastal Plain, native from South Carolina to Louisiana, with smooth gray bark, two-needle fascicles, small cones, and brittle wood of limited commercial value.
Pinus halepensis
Pinus halepensis, Aleppo pine or Jerusalem pine, a drought- and fire-adapted Mediterranean pine covering about 6.8 million ha, with serotinous cones, resin used for Retsina wine, native from Spain to Lebanon.
Pinus hartwegii
Pinus hartwegii (Hartweg's pine, ocote, pino de las alturas) is a high-elevation Mexican and Central American pine forming monotypic forests to 4,389 m, fire-adapted, IUCN Least Concern, with habitat predicted to shrink up to 70% by 2070.
Pinus jeffreyi
Pinus jeffreyi, Jeffrey pine, is a large California-centered conifer of dry, infertile montane sites, named for John Jeffrey, with heptane-rich resin and high fire resistance as an adult.
Pinus koraiensis
Pinus koraiensis, Korean pine (channamu, 잣나무), a large East Asian white pine native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China, Korea, and Japan, grown for soft timber and edible pine nuts; IUCN Least Concern but decreasing.
Pinus longaeva
Pinus longaeva, the Great Basin bristlecone pine, is a conifer of California, Nevada, and Utah high mountains, home of Methuselah (4,765 years old), the oldest non-clonal living tree, and a key radiocarbon-calibration species.
Pinus massoniana
Pinus massoniana (马尾松), Masson's pine or Chinese red pine, is a Pinaceae conifer native to central and southern China and Taiwan, reaching 45 m; China's major timber and resin pine, threatened by pine wilt disease.
Pinus merkusii
Pinus merkusii (Sumatran pine, Merkus pine, Mindoro pine), a tropical Pinaceae pine native to northern Sumatra and Luzon and Mindoro; the only pine naturally crossing the equator, IUCN Vulnerable, resin-tapped in Indonesian plantations.